HELSINKI: Building costs remained on level in February 2016 with the corresponding month in the year before, according to Statistics Finland. The prices of labour inputs in construction rose by 0.8 per cent. But the prices of materials went down by 0.3 per cent and the prices of services by 2.2 per cent year-on-year.
The total index of building costs went up by 0.2 per cent from January to February. The prices of labour inputs rose by 0.1 per cent and the prices of materials by 0.3 per cent, the data show. The prices of services, however, fell by 0.2 per cent from the previous month.